England win with Croatia, first time in their European debut
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FROM THE SENT TO LONDON
It’s all a matter of singing and countering for England that finally finds the right tone with which to enter a European championship and wins against Croatia. It had never happened before, it is the first time that the nation that claims to have invented football has started on the right foot in the competition and is the tenth attempt after five draws and four defeats. Sterling takes care of changing the wind and it is right that he is the one.
Raheem Sterling, 26, the one always in the balance in popular approval and returning from an opaque season even with the Premier won by his Manchester City, the one who has the Wembley bow tattooed on his arm because he grew up in the shadow of the construction site where the stadium has been reborn and in that design he too, as a child, with the number 10, his grown-up jersey. The one who has never scored in a great competition and when he entered the locker room today he said to himself: “Come on, you were born two minutes from here, you have to score.” And he did it, on a pass that is worth more than the net made by the best in the field, Kalvin Phillips, a rookie of the high level and already a cardinal point, but the name on the bill remains Sterling, the boy awarded for activism against racism with the queen’s honor list right in the middle of the boo challenge.
England, as promised, knelt down and a small part of the 22,500 spectators protested, as expected, overwhelmed by the majority, as requested by the players and the federation. The audience also sings ‘Football Coming Home’, the 1996 soundtrack, the summer England keeps returning to. Last European at home and Gazza Gascoigne and a worthy national team, the best is only the epic 1966 and too much time has passed. The two teams picked up where England left off, from the World Cup semi-final in which they crossed paths. Even in 2018 the English bubble had flown too high, Croatia had passed and now relies on the same older and slower men. More squeezed. Modric will also be able to play standing still, but the others won’t. In fact, almost all of them are unwatchable: Brozovic, Rebic, Perisic, one worse than the other. England has yet to prove everything, above all they must understand what they want to sing, but in the meantime they have won and made his debut the youngest ever seen in the tournament: Jude Bellingham, 17 years and 349 days. – g. zon.
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